VOL. XXII.-48 Somewhere she ranges free, Stately, a shape of light, She hangs like a lucent cloud On the coast where her guns spoke loud, In the gates of the Moslem proud, Till the Crescent grew faint with fright. Tracing the course of the race Came down to the Stripes and Stars! Aye, the old pride stirs her still And she haunts the moonlit seas Still the ghostly muskets rattle, Ah, never sailor-man Has seen her where she ranges, Clear, absolute, and free! When a fight is fought at sea, And the right of the fight is ours, And the cause of the right is failing, There shall rise a frigate sailing, A luminous presence paling Through the powder-cloud where it lowers; Pale smoke from her side shall break, Pale faces over her railing Shall frown, till the foemen shake Touched with a magic that heals, That the strong Dead fight behind him : "Tis the ghost of IRONSIDES, Come back from the tameless tides, From the ocean-fields unbounded, Complete with her scattered spars, Manned with the shades of her tars, With the smoke of her guns surrounded, THE BUSINESS OF A NEWSPAPER (THE CONDUCT OF GREAT BUSINESSES-SIXTH PAPER) By J. Lincoln Steffens WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY W. R. LEIGH ment store is borne out in principle and method. The managing editor aims to supply all the wants of all sorts of people, and the variety of interests handled there is divided into departments, e ach with a sub-editor : the foreign news, with a cable editor; the national and state news with a telegraph editor; the local news, with a city editor; and so on through the dramatic, the financial, the society, the exchange, the art, the literary, the sporting departments, with their expert managers and corps of assistants. "Extr', extree! just out." This may seem to the "constant reader" a rather brutal conception of the fourth estate, but it is the inside view, and Mr. Leigh, who has taken it for his illustrations, partly accounts for, if he does not wholly justify, it. His pictures of the press, composing, and stereotyping rooms, with their immense, complicated, delicate machinery look like glimpses of a factory plant. The paper on which the news is printed is the heaviest single item of expense; the man The man who paid the paper bill of $617,000 expended altogether that year more than two millions of dollars. He has a morning and an evening paper, and he employs 1,300 men and women every day in the year, besides twice that number who serve him at occasional critical moments. His stock in trade, the news, is collected from all over the world. The course of his business affects and is affected by every interest in the civilized world, and he has |